POCUS

Deep learning is a branch of artificial intelligence that holds a lot of promise for point-of-care ultrasound, but we don’t have much data on how it performs. The fearless investigators in this fascinating study train a deep learning algorithm to recognize sonographic anatomy of the upper extremity and then pit it against expert POCUS users to see who can interpret the images most accurately!

Can POCUS assist with diagnosis of flexor tenosynovitis?

Point of care ultrasound can be used for a great many things, but I don’t think many people grab for the probe when a patient comes in with suspected pre-eclampsia.

In this EM Cases Episode 131 PEA Arrest, PseudoPEA and PREM with Rob Simard of POCUS Cases fame and the co-author of The POCUS Pulse Check paper and Scott Weingart, we go beyond ACLS and guide you through the complex world of Pulseless Electrical Activity (PEA).

Can implementing a POCUS protocol helps improve the work flow in the emergency department?

How can you use POCUS for the evaluation of aortic stenosis in the ED?

Pain from kidney stones is a common reason to come to the emergency department. Ultrasound has been shown to be a good first step in assessment – to determine the presence and degree of hydronephrosis.

While community acquired pneumonia (CAP) is ‘bread and butter’ emergency medicine, and the diagnosis is often a ‘slam dunk’, it turns out that up one third of the time, we are wrong about the diagnosis; that x-rays are not perfect; that blood work is seldom helpful; that not all antibiotics are created equal and that deciding who can go home and who needs to go to the ICU isn’t always so clear cut.

Can you do POCUS to detect acute chest syndrome?

This article takes a look at using ultrasound to assess for successful reduction of adult patients with distal radius fractures.